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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Rep. Nancy Boyda Shares Her Experience With A Nutjob Talk Show Host |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 8:41 pm |
| Tags: Military, The House, Supporting Our Troops, Committees, Hearings |
| from President Bush to send troops back without a 1:2 deployment ratio for the active duty and a 1:5 ratio for most of the reserve component. She is responding in part to General Jack Keane, who testified before the Committee but left before Rep. Boyda's remarks, and was reportedly one of the architects of the escalation policy. And finally, |
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| Join Veterans in Writing President to Come Clean on Tillman |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Supporting Our Troops, George W Bush |
| Sign the VoteVets petition and demand the truth about Pat Tillman’s death. |
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| Two Vets Go At It On Hardball |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 10:28 pm |
| Tags: Military, Supporting Our Troops, Hardball Chris Matthews |
| On Wednesday’s “Hardball,” VoteVet’s Jon Soltz squared off with another veteran, Eric Egland, of Vets For Freedom on today’s heated testimony on Capitol Hill surrounding the cover up of Pat Tillman’s death. Egland–who is involved with Melanie Morgan’s Move America Forward–naturally defends |
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| The Right Goes After Rep Nancy Boyda For Standing Her Ground |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 4:41 pm |
| Tags: Military, Supporting Our Troops, Iraq |
| I posted a video of Rep.Nancy Boyda (D-KS) last week, relating her infuriating encounter with a right wing talk show host in her home state, and apparently she’s catching hell from the right for standing her ground. In her statements last week Boyda criticized General Jack Keane for his overly optimistic view of this situation in Iraq: |
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| House Passes Rest For Troops (Webb Amendment) |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 7:15 pm |
| Tags: The House, Supporting Our Troops |
| people, the families of our troops and the troops themselves to be sure that we increase our readiness, to make sure that we honor their service, and their valor, and their sacrifice by making sure that they are not only retrained and ready, but they have time to be home with their family before they are redeployed? That little proviso for Bush |
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| Saving Soldiers' Jobs |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 3:05 pm |
| Tags: Government Policy, Supporting Our Troops |
| the empty rhetoric of “supporting our troops.” I’m just so happy that my grandpop is no longer around to see how disgustingly this administration is treating those from whom they ask to sacrifice everything. Open Left: An op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Post calls out the Pentagon for its role in hiding the illegal |
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| Another Retired General Blasts Bush Administration Handling Of Iraq |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 4:33 pm |
| Tags: Military, Supporting Our Troops, Iraq, George W Bush |
| McClatchy Via Yahoo: Volney Warner thinks big. A retired Army four-star general who helped craft counterinsurgency doctrine during the Vietnam War, he’s made a career out of thinking about how U.S. military strategy should advance America’s global interests. How does domestic politics shape military tactics? How and why did U.S. |
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| Bush Avoids making a pledge in the Pat Tillman investigation |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 9:30 pm |
| Tags: Scandals, Supporting Our Troops, George W Bush |
| from their superiors…Supporting the troops in battle and in health is of paramount importance to all of us, but the Pat Tillman saga exposed the lies that the highest ranking generals were willing to commit in order to cover up the heroic Pat Tillman. A reporter should have followed up by asking Bush why they are using executive privilege |
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| Dems want to boost GI Bill |
| Published: August 10, 2007, 2:32 pm |
| Tags: Supporting Our Troops |
| over whether to give U.S. troops a pay increase for 2008. Dems fought for a 3.5% raise, Bush insisted that was too generous. The pro-military president thought the troops could get by with less. This month, congressional Dems and the Bush White House are at it again, this time over educational benefits for those who wear the uniform. |
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| U.S. Soldier In Iraq: Iraq Now Just In A State Of Quagmire |
| Published: September 3, 2007, 9:01 pm |
| Tags: Military, Supporting Our Troops, Middle East, Iraq |
| seconds the rest of the troops had joined in, filling the small, barren home in the middle of Iraq with the patriotic chorus of a Civil War-era ballad. Although the soldiers who since spring have walked and ridden through this volatile area mixed with Sunni and Shiite Muslims have seen some signs of progress, they still face the daily threat |
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| Video: President Bush's Surprise Photo Op In Iraq |
| Published: September 3, 2007, 12:20 pm |
| Tags: Msnbc, Military, Supporting Our Troops, Middle East, Iraq, George W Bush |
| for the president to use the troops as props (note the big thumbs up! from Gen. Petraeus) to spin his failing surge as U.S. troop levels surge as well. MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer brought in Republican strategist Joe Watkins and former Senior Advisor to John Kerry, James Boyce, to talk about the presidential visit. Boyce is on the money, |
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| Melanie Morgan Caught Lying |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 3:04 pm |
| Tags: Supporting Our Troops, Liars, Right Wing Pundits |
| was “Support the Troops, Not Bush.” It was led by the Nevada Democratic Veterans & Military Families Caucus. However Move America Forward has been lying all day. First Melanie Morgan said at her rally Saddam Hussein finally got what was coming to him for attacking our country [..] Here’s what Melanie’s other |
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| Iraq Vet Amputee: Veteran Healthcare System A Total, Total Beat Down |
| Published: September 9, 2007, 2:04 pm |
| Tags: Military, Supporting Our Troops, Middle East, Iraq |
| Via NOLA.com: Marine Cpl. Jacob Schick says he was ready to die in Iraq. He wasn’t prepared to come home in pieces. The bomb that tore through the floor of his Humvee in the fall of 2004 shredded his legs and left arm. Forty-six surgeries later, Schick is an amputee still learning to cope with physical limitations that as a star high |
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| This Week's In Memoriam |
| Published: September 9, 2007, 1:21 pm |
| Tags: Abc, Military, Supporting Our Troops, Middle East, Iraq, This Week George Stephanopoulos |
| This morning’s In Memoriam on ABC’s This Week includes the passing of Luciano Pavarotti, Republican Congressman Paul Gillmore and former Republican member of Congress, Jennifer Dunn. At the end, as they do every week, list the names of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Last week the Pentagon released 21 names, this week it |
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| Boehner: U.S. Soldiers' Blood A Small Price To Pay In Iraq |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 1:01 pm |
| Tags: Cnn, Republican Party, Military, The House, Supporting Our Troops, Right Wing Stupidity, Iraq, Middle East, The Situation Room Wolf Blitzer |
| that the blood of American troops in Iraq is a “small price” to pay for the long term goals in the Middle East. I can assure the Republican Congressman, the tens of thousands of family members whose loved ones have spilled their blood in Iraq, whether dead or horrifically wounded in this tragedy, would not agree with that assessment |
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